Justice Junction - Judicial Injustice - The West Memphis Three The Devils Knot, Anothers Perspective.

There have been two books written on this case that I know of. The first one was a paperback called, “The Blood of Innocents” by a trio of writers, Guy Reel, Marc Perrusquia and Bartholomew Sullivan. It is a typical gory paperback with a lot of speculative thoughts and reports that were later proven to be false. The second book, titled “Devil’s Knot” By Mara Leveritt is more in depth and outlines many of the reported rumors and lies that have become a sort of urban legend for the people who had to see the brutality and falsehoods visited upon their hometown. It has a large listing of statements made by people you might think would know better than to fabricate testimony. For example, one woman named Victoria Hutchinson, had told the police that she had attended an esbat, which is a Wiccan ceremony in the woods where kids reportedly went to worship Satan, do drugs and have orgies. She had asked Jessie to introduce her to Damian. Later, in 1994 she told police that she had, on the day in question, drunk a full fifth of Wild Turkey after breaking up with her boyfriend. She awoke the next day in her front yard with no memory of what had taken place the night before. Other confessions were to follow. The parents of Melissa Byers had been told by her, before her death, that Byers was cheating on her with a local woman and asked her father to pick up her son from school on the day of the crime. But on the day in question, Melissa’s father was headed off at the pass by Byers himself. He told him he would pick up Chris and for him to go on home. He did and later wished that he had picked the child up himself. Melissa had also told her parents she was coming to stay with them for a few days. They were relieved and told her so plainly. When she didn’t show up, they called the Byers’ home and Mark told them Melissa wasn’t feeling well and she was asleep. Later that night, they received a phone call from Mark. “Melissa’s dead,” he said and the news was met with confusion. ”Melissa’s what?” her father stammered. “She’s dead,” Byers said flatly adding that the police had seized her body so there was no reason for them to come up there. There has been much speculation as to the nature of Melissa’s death. It was true she was on drugs and Byers insisted she had died of “a broken heart.”

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